President Joe Biden is nominating a longtime labor and trade official to one of the two vacant seats on the Occupational Safety and Health Association Review Commission (OSHRC), after the Senate’s inaction on a prior nominee has left the panel with just a single active member, and thus unable to decide cases, for over a year.
President Joe Biden is nominating a longtime labor and trade official to one of the two vacant seats on the Occupational Safety and Health Association Review Commission (OSHRC), after the Senate’s inaction on a prior nominee has left the panel with just a single active member, and thus unable to decide cases, for over a year.
President Joe Biden is nominating a longtime labor and trade official to one of the two vacant seats on the Occupational Safety and Health Association Review Commission (OSHRC), after the Senate’s inaction on a prior nominee has left the panel with just a single active member, and thus unable to decide cases, for over a year.
EPA is proposing to ban the solvent n-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) in fertilizers, lubricants and a handful of other products while setting strict new requirements for its continued use in other sectors, including both workplace exposure limits and product restrictions designed to protect consumers in its latest TSCA chemical risk-management rule.
EPA is proposing to ban the solvent n-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) in fertilizers, lubricants and a handful of other products while setting strict new requirements for its continued use in other sectors, including both workplace exposure limits and product restrictions designed to protect consumers in its latest TSCA chemical risk-management rule.
Members of the House Homeland Security Committee used a June 4 hearing on OSHA’s proposed updates to health and safety standards for “emergency responders” to raise concerns over their compliance costs for local fire departments and whether the new provisions would truly bolster protections for firefighters in particular.
Members of the House Homeland Security Committee used a June 4 hearing on OSHA’s proposed updates to health and safety standards for “emergency responders” to raise concerns over their compliance costs for local fire departments and whether the new provisions would truly bolster protections for firefighters in particular.
California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) officials are scrambling to revise and resubmit their landmark but controversial new indoor heat worker-safety rules in time for the expanded requirements to take effect in late July, assuming the agency’s standards board will approve them at a June 20 meeting.
California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) officials are scrambling to revise and resubmit their landmark but controversial new indoor heat worker-safety rules in time for the expanded requirements to take effect in late July, assuming the agency’s standards board will approve them at a June 20 meeting.
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has opened interagency review of EPA’s final TSCA rule governing perchloroethylene (PCE), setting up a renewed battle among stakeholders over the agency’s proposal to ban PCE in many sectors, while imposing strict exposure limits in others and a decade-long phaseout of the solvent for dry-cleaning.